>> It's just that those vowels are on two different levels of intonation (=pitch) << ?? How so? >> But I tend to use long vowels where I shouldn't use them. << Well, since it's allophonic, it really makes no difference. It

I don't think it's called intonation. It's allophonic vowel length: vowel phonemes are realized as longer vowel allophones before voiced consonant phonemes in the coda of a syllable. This is found in all dialects of American English. Some American

Around here: /g@r\{Z/ or /g@r\OZ/

I see you pronounce "you're", "we're" and you'll diferently than I do. I normally pronounce them as and ( We're going to the store ) and . Also, the word "poor". I remember being surprised when I read that some people don't have the pour-poor

>> HALLIE BERRY << >> utilized << >> achaean? <<

>> The vowel is obviously different from the one in "bit" http://cougar.eb.com/soundc11/b/bit00001.wav , don't you think? << Then I guess it is the tense-lax neutralization thing that occurs in my dialect. I honestly can't hear the

>> I asked a native speaker too, and she said that "How are you?" would be something you say after someone has already asked you "How are you?" So she said "How are you?" is not ok as a general question when you meet someone. << Hmm.

>> Conservative Received pronunciation used to pronounce r's between words as a flap. << Conservative Received Pronunciation is the dialect that used to be the standard, formal, educated, upper-class dialect in England. In this

>> If I say "beer" with the vowel in "bit", it sounds very similar to "bear". << Really??? >> And since my /ɪ/ (IPA) - /I/ (XSAMPA) is very close to /e/ << Hmm. The "in" in "pit" and the /e/ in "made" sound very different.

Hwat for what is the original pronunciation and was the only form used in Middle English. In Modern English, many dialects lost the wine-whine distinction, and began pronouncing words spelled "wh" as simply "w", rather thn "hw". The original,